Frances Page Roberts, 95

Frances Page Roberts, 95, of Mt. Sterling, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
Born in Edmonton, she spent her youth in Pikeville where her father was president of Pikeville College.  She met her husband Lon there, and after living in Charlottesville, Va. while he attended college, they landed in Louisville for his medical school education and her work with Louise Marshall at the Cabbage Patch Settlement House.  She lived most of her life in Mt. Sterling.  She was a Sunday school teacher undaunted by her children’s resistance.  She was a home room mother, applying bandages and hugs in the school office.  She was in the PTA.  She was a den mother, leading a group of rowdy Cub Scouts.  She was a Brownie and Girl Scout troop leader.  She was a docent at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, volunteer at the Presbyterian Post free clinic, an active participant in the S.T.A.R reading program, a Director of the Mountain Laurel Festival, and on the Board and Music Committee of the Montgomery County Council for the Arts.  She was a staunch supporter of the Presbyterian Church – singing in the choir for awhile – actively helping to set the agenda of the Presbyterian women.  She was an elder in the church, and served on the Session.  Somehow in the middle of raising four children, she found time to return to school at Morehead State and earn her bachelor’s degree in her 50s.  She showed her children and grandchildren the way forward by her example.  She praised us when praise was due, and challenged us to do better when we came up short.  Kindness to others was expected, and everyone was to be seen and heard.  She felt that the voice of women in particular needed to be amplified.  She often said that for too long, “old white men” had had too loud a voice in the body politic.  She was a deeply religious Presbyterian, and proud progressive Democrat.  She loved playing bridge with her friends, and continued to play bridge until a few months before her death.
Survivors include four children, Edward (Ellen) Roberts, Carol McLaughlin, David (Leigh) Roberts and Elaine (John) Crockett; 11 grandchildren, Elizabeth Roberts, Catherine Roberts (Garriy) Shteynberg, Alex (Ana) Roberts, Kevin Patrick McLaughlin, David Paul McLaughlin, Page Roberts (Brad) Britz, Mary Roberts (John) McEwan, Andrew David (Hilary) Roberts, Sam (Morgan) Crockett, Henry (Callie) Crockett and Thomas Crockett; 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 67 years, Lon E. Roberts; parents, Mary and A.A. Page; brother, Jack Page; and sister, Louise Marvin.
Memorial service will be conducted at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 16, at the First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Sterling.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the First Presbyterian Church, Post Clinic or Gateway Regional Arts Center, all in Mt. Sterling.